Exam 3 People Flashcards
This person drew off of Freud’s ideas to create the inferiority complex he argued that life could be viewed as an attempt to compensate for inferiority.
Adler
one of the first psychologists to focus on the study of the personality, and is often referred to as one of the founding figures of personality psychology.
Allport, Gordon
He is known for his work on working memory, in particular for his multiple components model.
Baddeley
A rich smart person who was often hospitalized for depression in 1908. He wrote about his experience in Mental hospitals and called for reform in the hospitals.He documented the constant verbal and occasional physical abuse suffered at the hands of the staff
Beers (Clifford)
The scottish Physician that changed the name of mesmerism to neurypnology. Thought mesmerism was just a type of sleep.
Braid, James
Viennese philosopher who wrote the Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint. In the book, he argued that the important thing about studying the mind was not to examine its contents, or even to understand the underlying physiology, but to understand how the mind operates to create our experiences.
Brentano Franz
Known in medical community for discovering the role of the semicircular canals on balance, in psychology he treated the famous Anna O.He found that catharsis was a worthy treatment
Breuer (Joseph)
An Expert in hysteria. He was seriously as a disorder an search for its cause. He came to believe that hysteria and the ability to be hypnotized shared the same underlying pathology.
Charcot
Freud’s mentor, was a student of Johannes Muller, and he was a leader in the movement that sought to explain all living action by reducing it to physical, mechanical forces.
Brucke (Ernst)
Helped sway the Brown v Board of Education case, afterwards, joined the faculty of City College of New York and eventually became the frist and only black president of the APA
Kenneth Clark
Helped sway the Brown v Board of Education case. Afterwards, took a position at the Riverdale Home for Children, providing psychological services for homeless black children
Mamie Clark
Suggested using mesmerism as type anesthetic before there were chemical anesthetics. The medical community forbid its use and he resigned in protest
Elliotson (John)
Did the largest study of the mesmeric effects on pain. He was a scottish surgeon working in India.
Esdaile (John)
early French psychiatrist who was the first to combine precise clinical descriptions with the statistical analysis of mental illnesses. He provided the first accurate description of mental retardation as an entity separate from insanity, and he also coined the term hallucination.
Esquirol
Questioned the efficacy of traditional insight approach to psychotherapy. Argued that more eclectic therapy was better.
Eysenck (Hans)
Best known for developing the theory of cognitive dissonance ( a super important theory in social psychology). His research was also important because it created the experimental tradition of elaborately staged research settings.
Festinger
Invented the transorbital lobotomy, and was really excited to share it for the world. Responsible for performing almost 3000 lobotomies
Freeman
Created the visual cliff, a way to test the depth perception of infants
Eleanor Gibson
Created the idea of Habit strength. Viewed the human as a machine. His work was largely discredited and tossed aside.
Hull
Developed what is now known as analytical psychology, which put him at odds with Freud. Came up with ideas like the collective conscious, introverts and extroverts
Jung (Carl)
One of the Gestaltists. He was primarily responsible for introducing gestalt psychology to the U.S. Wrote “Perception: An Introduction to Gestalt-Theorie” Which made Americans think gestalt psychology was only about perception.
Koffka
A gestaltist, the one who got trapped on the Canary Islands durring WWI and wrote The Mentality of Apes
Kohler
Create the DSM also provided the first clear insight into a disorder he named dementia praecox(aka schizophrenia).
Kraeplin
Responsible for the field theory and used it to explain what he named the Zeigarnik effect
Lewin
Created at heory of Hypnosis based on suggestion. Believed that suggestibility was a personality trait. Made patient symptoms go away by suggesting that the symptom had left during hypnosis
Liebeau
The kid that Watson fucking tramatized, while screwing his grad student who was also the child’s mother…
Little Albert
The Humanistic Psychologist. The dude behind Self-Actualization.
Maslow
The superstar of hypnotism. Had people thinking he could lay hands on them and heal them.
Mesmer
Took Freud under his wing. He was a famous brain anatomist and professor of psychiatry.
Meynert
A Portuguese neuropsychiatrist who won developed the procedure called a prefrontal leucotomy. He drilled small holes on each side of the skull just in front of the temples then put in a thin leucotone to sever the brain tissue on either side.
Moniz
Named Cognitive Psychology. Made it what it is today.
Neisser
The guy who found classical conditioning, and trained the dogs.
Pavlov
Created Genetic epistemology. focused on how knowledge is developed within an individual. Known for this work with development psychology
Piaget
The dude who dramatically unchained the people in the mental hospitals in france. He made many humane reforms in Paris hospitals
Pinel
Becky with the good hair, was Watson’s last wife, but his mistress before then. Went on to do many publications with watson
Rayner (rosalie)
known for his influential psychotherapy method known as client-centered therapy.
Rogers (Carl)
The dude who made the tranquilizer chair. Also signed the Declaration of independence. Was the face of the APA for a while.
Rush (Benjamin)
A famous behaviorist. THE operant conditioning guy
Skinner
Believed that behavior was goal directed or purposive and that molar rather than molecular behavior should be the unit of study.
Tolman
The quaker dude in charge of the Yorke Retreat
Tuke
ndependently discovered classical conditioning at approximately the same time as Pavlov
Twitmyer
American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. He promoted a change in psychology through his address Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it, which was given at Columbia University in 1913.
Watson
he originator of Gestalt psychology, which had a profound influence on the whole science of psychology.
Werthemier
Established the first clinic for treatment of psychological disorders in the U.S. His clinic focused on psycho-educational problems . He believed the problems he studied could be cured with orthogenics
Witmer
Used progressive relaxation and systematic desensitization to to alleviate fears in animals.
Wolpe
